Dome
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dome¹
- /dəʊm/
Rhymes with -əʊm
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.
noun domes
- A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere. geodesic dome
- Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover. a cake dome
- A person's head. Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
- head, oral sex Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
- A building; a house; an edifice. pleasure dome
- Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. steam dome
- A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- A press stud or snap fastener.
verb domes · doming · domed
- To give a domed shape to. The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]
- To shoot or hit in the head. That guy just got domed!
- To perform fellatio on.
Dome²
noun Domes
- Alternative form of Dhome.Dhome To the Domes or out-castes are left the whole of the inferior trades […]
Dome³
Where it comes from
Various origins:
* English occupational surname for a judge, from Old English dēma (“judge”).
* Borrowed from French Dome, a habitational surname.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Döme, a hypocoristic form of the personal name Demeter.
proper noun Domes
- A surname.
